Often when an individual goes to the doctor saying they have severe or chronic pain. Many doctors are forced to prescribe opiates and different harmful narcotics. In some states it's one of the few options to deal with pain, but nowadays there has been a trending alternative to these addictive pain medications; Medical Marijuana. Medical Marijuana has been used to treat many illnesses, such as muscle spasms, caused by multiple sclerosis, nausea from cancer chemotherapy, multiple different seizure disorders(WebMD) and many more illnesses.
Marijuana has an immense amount of names such as weed, pot, loud, cannabis, and many more. Marijuana is basically a plant that contains cannabinoids which extracted from the plant. The ones that are approved …show more content…
2900 BC), whom the Chinese credit with bringing civilization to China, seems to have made reference to Ma, the Chinese word for Cannabis, noting that Cannabis was very popular medicine that possessed both yin and yang."(NIDA)”. Another time in history it was used medical was "In the 19th Century, marijuana emerged as a mainstream medicine in the West. Studies in the 1840s by a French doctor by the name of Jacques-Joseph Moreau [a French psychiatrist] found that marijuana suppressed headaches, increased appetites, and aided people to sleep."(ProCon). We see that decades ago Marijuana was used to treat some of the same illnesses it's used for now. Medical Marijuana is fairly new and some are still uncertain about it. It's been implemented and legalized in a handful of states. It first became legal in California in 1996. Alaska, Oregon and Maine followed shortly after.(ProCon). The legalization has been become a trending and popular discussion topic. There are now 29 states legalized medically as of 2017 according to ProCon.org. Each state has a possession limit meaning how much one can posses at a
Marijuana has an immense amount of names such as weed, pot, loud, cannabis, and many more. Marijuana is basically a plant that contains cannabinoids which extracted from the plant. The ones that are approved …show more content…
2900 BC), whom the Chinese credit with bringing civilization to China, seems to have made reference to Ma, the Chinese word for Cannabis, noting that Cannabis was very popular medicine that possessed both yin and yang."(NIDA)”. Another time in history it was used medical was "In the 19th Century, marijuana emerged as a mainstream medicine in the West. Studies in the 1840s by a French doctor by the name of Jacques-Joseph Moreau [a French psychiatrist] found that marijuana suppressed headaches, increased appetites, and aided people to sleep."(ProCon). We see that decades ago Marijuana was used to treat some of the same illnesses it's used for now. Medical Marijuana is fairly new and some are still uncertain about it. It's been implemented and legalized in a handful of states. It first became legal in California in 1996. Alaska, Oregon and Maine followed shortly after.(ProCon). The legalization has been become a trending and popular discussion topic. There are now 29 states legalized medically as of 2017 according to ProCon.org. Each state has a possession limit meaning how much one can posses at a